Political Quotes

“I commend our Speaker and this House, this very body, for negotiating and passing a responsible bill to raise the debt limit in exchange for spending cuts and reforms. While the White House and the Senate stood on the sidelines for 90 days, this very body came together in initiating a debt limit increase. While many of our Members did not want to increase the debt limit, we negotiated that with responsible and reasonable spending cuts and reforms. Democrats in the White House and here in Congress would, if they had their way, raise the debt ceiling by some $4 trillion with no reforms or spending cuts, promising to do what Washington never does, cut spending in some future undefined date. Certainly, a default will occur if we continue on the current track when we can no longer borrow, we can no longer sell our debt, and we can no longer service our debt. Republicans here in the House are determined not to let this happen, and that is why we have done our job. What have we passed out of this House? Returning spending to pre-COVID levels for nondefense discretionary spending. We put 1 percent caps on future growth in spending. We have eliminated hundreds of billions of dollars in woke climate environmental extremism that is in the phony inflation increase act and the phony Inflation Reduction Act.…”